I can't help but feel the Penguins ruined Tangradi's development somehow. Every year after training camp you'd hear the same quote about finally being comfortable, but the Pens never did anything to really make him feel comfortable.

wondermoose wrote:I can't help but feel the Penguins ruined Tangradi's development somehow. Every year after training camp you'd hear the same quote about finally being comfortable, but the Pens never did anything to really make him feel comfortable.

How did the Pens make him:

Soft.Slow footed.No hustle.Non-existent hands.

??

How about we lay this one at Tangradi's doorstep? He's on a bad team right now, and yet his ice time is DECLINING. A team that is sucking out loud, and the guy still can't get on the ice? That is the type of situation, as pointed out earlier in this thread by another poster, where if a guy is working hard, hustling, and making himself a presence out there------------------------ the coaches are going to fall all over themselves to put him in. He is not commanding that type of situation, and ain't nobody's fault but his own.